Academic Programs

Master of Science, Finance (MS-FI)
Message from the Chair

In addition to our highly acclaimed part-time MBA, the Department of Finance is pleased to offer a specialized Master of Science in Finance degree program. The MS-Finance program is designed for mid-career professionals, international students, and managers working in the broad area of global financial management.

The Robinson College of Business realizes that the MS-Finance degree may be your preferred choice over the MBA, because of your need to specialize in a specific functional area of management. The MS-Finance program gives you the opportunity to focus on developing your theoretical, analytical, and technical skills necessary for competing in an ever-changing financial environment. In particular, the program trains you to acquire the means to progress in your current organization, fulfill your long-term career goals, and / or move into one of several reputed doctoral programs in Finance.

Recognizing the quantitative emphasis needed in developing your managerial abilities, quantitative and analytical course requirements have been integrated in the MS-Finance curriculum to complement the finance electives in your chosen area of specialization. Together with an emphasis on either corporate finance, investments or financial institutions and markets, the program also enables you to learn from a global perspective. The curriculum includes course-work in international finance and multinational financial management. As the world of business becomes rapidly globalized, the program gives you the opportunity to understand its widespread implications in the practical world of finance and commerce.

Faculty members in the Department of Finance bring together expertise spanning most sub-fields that make up the theory and practice of modern finance. Their superior research and teaching ability coupled with their extensive real world business experience serves to keep our curriculum current with changing times. The state-of -the-art Aderhold Learning Center features sophisticated acoustically efficient classrooms and seminar rooms fully equipped with audio-visual media for communication. The North Metro campus of Georgia State University in Alpharetta also provides a convenient location to pursue the MS (Finance) program option for professionals in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.